I'm quite certain their reserve is considerably worse than ours. I have friends currently living it and it was one of the main reasons to vote no on their extension. The phrase "if we aren't going to fix reserve now then when?" Sums it up. I know they have airport standby reserve. Airport standby reserve makes me think I'm at a regional airline but I digress...

I'm not saying there isn't some aspect of their reserve system that isn't better but there is no way you could say theirs is better overall. Just saying...

thanks!

www.netbenefits.com is a direct link in case anybody else cares.

Seniority Calculator
 

Somewhere or other I came across a seniority calculator that would instantly show your seniority in every seat in every domicile - all you had to do was input your employee number.

I don't remember if it was a link on here, Chit Chat, or even somewhere in the PBS help section.

Can someone pleas point me in the right direction.

Thanks Scoop :)

[QUOTE=Scoop;2064088]Somewhere or other I came across a seniority calculator that would instantly show your seniority in every seat in every domicile - all you had to do was input your employee number.


Pilot Relative Position

Ironically, it's Curly's spreadsheet

Maybe 10,000 is really Curlie!

10000 angry posts in chitchat land about how much $$$ he's lost this year!

[QUOTE=10000;2064101]It says it's using January data? I guess it doesn't update automatically.

Yea. I talked to him. He said it's not the same system. Before the merger, the United side did have it where reserves could pick up trips 2 days prior to report. It was called "fast fingers" because it was first come first serve and instantaneous. Click a button and the trip was yours. Now, it's more like the system we have now - day prior at 11 am the trips are assigned.

He also confirmed that they do have some type of ready reserve system that really effects narrow body fleets, slightly effects the 767 fleet, and doesn't effect the 777/747 fleets at all.

The big plus they have in their reserve system that GSG and I were hoping for is their reserves can what we call yellow slip for trips that are -1 from their day available group. So, if you are sitting in the 4 day SILO, you can bid for a 3 day trip, 3 day SILO - 2 day trip, ect.

They have some other nice perks, as well. He said they have a 2 1/2 hour call out, but if the company calls and needs them sooner and they decide to make it sooner, their is some kind of premium pay added to their trip. He also said if they deadhead and get assigned a middle seat, there is some kind of extra pay added as well. Finally, he did confirm that they do get to choose their crew meals, but said sometimes they get other people's crew meal on the first day of a trip. Which is funny compared to how we get our crew meals.

Hell. I didn't even know what a crew meal looked like until I got off the DC-9. Back then, a good "crew meal flight" was when they had peanuts, pretzels, AND cookies in the back.


So, all in all, I get the feeling that their contract is very much like ours. It's good in some places, sucks in other places, and the junior, and the narrow body fleets get screwed.

My takeaway is still that we shouldn't concede anything in our new contract and my orange bling is still out in full force in response to the company's response.

Thanks for the recon and well thought out response. I am right there with ya and I don't think we need to be giving up anything. Have a great weekend brother.

I know this was covered in depth a few weeks ago, but has anyone actually used PB days to get paid for their APD? Planning a vacation that may require use of the APD and I have three PB days I would like to use up before March.